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Offshore development has been embraced by the vast majority of commercial software vendors and enterprise application development groups. Why? Because a world flattened by globalization makes it possible to improve competitiveness by taking advantage of the easy exchange of low-cost, high-quality technical skills.

Some companies opt to deploy UC solutions on-premises, but the cloudbased model is gaining popularity. Cloud-based UC solutions are ideal for businesses that have limited IT staff, a distributed workforce and/or a desire for pay-as-you-go flexibility.
By enabling diverse communication media to be carried over a common IP network, UC solutions make it possible to manage a full suite of capabilities from a single point—and use them with common devices.
But what’s the best way to maximize UC capabilities for your specific workplace? Spiceworks surveyed IT decision makers to get their insights on identifying and deploying collaboration and communication solutions across their organizations. This white paper explores the survey results, including key concerns, pain points, and roadmaps around driving UC strategies.

Despite the availability of a large potential workforce, finding, developing and retaining the right talent can be time consuming, frustrating, and sometimes an exercise in futility. Organizations that combine technology with enhanced employee value propositions are finding some answers to these challenges. Three things can help overcome these very real obstacles: a clear value proposition, empowered employees, and a forecast of future needs.
Download our new White Paper on Turning Potential Workforce into the Right Talent Strategy to learn how you can conquer these hurdles and help your business thrive.

IT leaders today are reinventing their infrastructure to support a mobile workforce and a complex array of connected devices. Against this backdrop of mobility and connectivity, Healthcare IT is tasked with meeting compliance challenges in an intricate and transformational regulatory environment. With a host of new data protection regulations and increasingly high settlement fees for data breaches, data security has never been more important to Healthcare organizations

You’re ideating while executing. With funding in hand, you must deliver. Patience? Well, it’s nonexistent. If this sounds familiar, you’re likely one of many energetic companies vying to grab the best talent possible to deliver on your mission. How well your workforce executes will depend on the quality of your onboarding and employee development.
By building an eLearning program on a Learning Management System (LMS), you’ll get newbies up to speed and free your team to focus on the heavy brain work. Here’s how the right LMS will pay off bigtime ROI.

Organizations spend over $48 billion per year on employee rewards and recognition programs; however there are critical limitations to the traditional approach. In this research bulletin, Bersin & Associates discusses how Rewards and Recognition has changed to cater today's workforce.

Employee recognition has become powerful in the workplace but today’s changing workforce requires more than the standard online recognition program. Read this e-book to learn the top trends for employee recognition programs in 2013.

Today’s workforce is fundamentally changing. Organizations are flatter, more agile, and require even better retention strategies. HR professionals and business leaders agree on the importance of attracting, retaining, and cultivating top talent. An employee rewards and recognition program that has the buy-in and support of business leaders can transform your corporate culture, making your organization a great place to work, building your brand as a top employer, delighting your customers with your service, and reaping the financial benefits that come from Employee Success. Download this white paper, Obtaining executive buy-in for recognition programs, and obtain best practices to sell the vision of a rewards and recognition program to your CFO.

Download Achievers white paper, Unleash Employee Success to stay abreast of changes in the kinds of recognition that employees expect and that motivate them. Based on real-world experience, this paper will explain how you can use recognition to engage and motivate these generations in your workforce.

Use our Salary Guide to adapt as fast as the talent you’re after.
Your company will only go as far as your creative and marketing minds take it. They build your unique brand and convince consumers to buy your products and services. But to acquire the best of them, you have to do some convincing of your own—and it starts with salaries.
Even with the justified chatter about career paths, culture and work-life balance, salary is still the one. In fact, two thirds of respondents to the recent Workforce 2020 study conducted by Oxford Economics and SAP SE, agree—they all said money matters most.
Our Creative & Marketing Salary Guide is the single most important hiring and retention tool for your company. It’ll help you confidently discuss and offer convincing salaries that help you land new talent and keep old talent.

To hire and retain top talent in today’s ultra competitive job market, you need accurate salary data.
As the economy recovers and the unemployment rate declines, job seekers can be more selective—which often means waiting for the right salary.
Although benefits, career paths, cultural fit, vacation time and work-life balance still matter, salary remains the most important factor to job seekers. In fact, two thirds of the respondents in Workforce 2020, an Oxford Economics and SAP SE study, said compensation matters most.
Our Salary Guide helps you have more informed salary discussions and put together competitive compensation packages—the key to hiring and retaining the best talent.

Without document classification in play, it's impossible to know what to protect. The mobile ecosystem makes workers infinitely more productive, which is one reason that it won’t go
away. This white paper explores the question: How can IT govern and protect content in such ad hoc and semi-structured environments? Please download whitepaper to learn more.

In this paper, we explore the IT management environment. How can you integrate document solutions across
desktops, mobile apps, and the cloud to better meet business demands, without creating so much complexity
that it causes IT to suffer? Please download to learn more.

For the past several years, the nature of enterprise productivity has been forever changed by the new breed of
mobile devices. Personal smartphones and tablets are everywhere. Gone are the days when every enterprise gave
its employees a security-focused BlackBerry. Cloud-based productivity apps can be downloaded in seconds.
Compared to even a few years ago, enterprises are operating in a new world. Please download whitepaper to learn more.

This Gigaom Research report aims to help technology decision-makers better understand:
- What the modern workforce thinks it needs to succeed in this rapidly changing world of mobile-first communications and new work-collaboration technologies
- How IT is supporting those needs and overall corporate objectives
- If there are gaps between worker expectations and IT requirements, and how technology buyers can address them
Download this Gigaom Research white paper to learn more.

This Gigaom Research study aims to help technology decision-makers better understand the role of IT in supporting the need for business agility and pace. In this report you will gain insight into:
- How to increase business agility with the best tools for your workforce
- Strategies to speed up new tool adoption so the workforce has a range of work tools that match different sorts of work activities and interactions
- The shifting role of IT to create a technology landscape in which productivity and innovation flourish
Download this Gigaom Research white paper to learn more.

Many businesses invest in analytics
technology thinking it’s a silver bullet. But
data doesn’t always tell the whole story. You
get percentages but not insights. Trends but
not necessarily relationships or patterns.
Truly impactful workforce analytics has to
do more. You have to turn data into
insight, and then put it into action.
This workbook is designed to help you
progress through the workforce analytics
maturity model. The first step in the process
is to identify where you stand today.

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